and this from Finding Joy in My Kitchen, who has a way better photo. This one is going on the frequently repeat list!
Monday: Butternut Squash Lasagna
He sampled a little cookie:
He thinks his brother is pretty funny.
He was ready for our brisk fall day, wearing jeans for the first time! I was afraid he'd outgrow the length before he could wear them because the waist is ginormous. But he can finally fill them out enough that they don't slide down.
Gus visiting with Great Grandpa Bob.
Checking out Great Grandma Joyce.
Here he is back at home. This is mommy's favorite outfit in this size. Gus is 3 months old. The outfit is size 6 months. Reese wore this when he was 8 months old. Unfortunately those photos are not saved on my laptop so I can't post them for comparison.
Here's all of us.
Gus smiling--but I can't get one of his whole face because he refuses to smile when he sees the camera. And as you can see above I can not make him laugh and keep the camera at the right position to get his whole face.
Unsuspecting Gus getting ready to be squeezed by Reese.
One sweet brotherly kiss after "sharing" his cookie.
He thinks he's ready to head out the door. Here he is actually waiting patiently to go down to the basement with his bedhead, no pants and rain boots.
Last week we started participating in Muffin Tin Monday at Her Cup Overfloweth. She has themes for each week, but I was sort of baffled about that. I figured if I stressed about too much we'd just not do it at all, so I skipped the theme for this week. I'll take a look at what everyone else did so next week we know what we're doing. What Reese did enjoy muffin tin style this past week was:
At Mimi's, Reese at a lot before I remembered to take a photo. Carrot sticks, grapes, potato skins, steak, green beans and a glass of water.
Carrot sticks, marshmallows, whole grain fish crackers, grapes, hot dog, Cesar salad. That tub of BBQ sauce was really for the hot dog, but he ended up dipping his carrots in it. He has had carrot sticks and bbq sauce as a snack a couple of times since this meal---yummy! (blech!)
Wow last week busy. We ate fast food a couple of times. Hopefully this week we'll be back on track and eat all our meals at home.
I made a double batch because who knows when I'll do it again. Reese was very intent on his stirring duty. Here he is mixing all the dry ingredients. 
This is after a little taste--unfortunately it's still just dry ingredients.
Still Mr. Focused using 2 stirring tools to mix in the wet ingredients.
I turned the light on in the stove so he could see. When he walked back into the kitchen and noticed he squealed with excitement and brought in his chair to sit and watch. He squealed again when they rose a bit. But as soon as the camera was aimed at him he went back to a straight face or covered his face completely. He is not too hot for smiling for the camera.
Ta DA!! Reese's muffin tin dinner: clockwise from the bottom right corner
Of course he dug right into the meat, promptly emptied that compartment and began the daily meat chant: Meat! Meat! Meat!!!!!! accompanied by the frantic sign for please.
He even ate his marshmallows with the fork!
This method worked great. After the meat was gone I conned him into eating half of the mac & cheese (normally he we not even he 1 bite), tasting the beans (he spit them out after making a horrid face and desperately swiping his lips with his hand), and even finishing the nectarines. Then he asked for more nectarines. This is quite an accomplishment because usually he won't eat moist fruit (i.e. anything from a can or fruit cup).
We celebrated his birthday at Uncle Travis' (my brother) soccer game (Whitworth University vs. University of Puget Sound). Reese and Gus and I went with Mimi (my mom) to watch the game which we finally won, 1-0, in overtime with a goal kicked in by my brother.
Travis is wearing the black Whitworth uniform.
During halftime Reese used the team's practice ball to demonstrate his footwork on the field. I'm thinking we need to find a Pirate costume on sale after Halloween so he can be their mascot next year!
Sunday the boys spent about 27 hours watching football------UGH! Reese actually fell asleep and took a 2 hour nap during the game. Here he just woke up and there was still plenty left for him watch.
In his frantic distress, Kyle put one of Reese's diapers on Gus. Somehow this photo doesn't really show how enormous the diaper is on him. I'm shocked he could lift him without it sliding off!
Here's Gus feeling happier in his own clean diaper and clothes, bouncing in his bouncy seat.
So planning for the whole month is just silly. I have to keep going back and changing things, so I don't know if I'll do that again. It is nice to have a rough draft plan I guess so maybe I will keep doing it on a monthly basis. Then we'll just tweek it as needed. For example, green bell peppers where on sale so we had stuffed peppers today which wasn't planned for and costco didn't have my alfredo sauce so we didn't have ravioli whenever we were supposed to. On to this week:
Another milestone this week: Our first pepper harvest!!!
